Editing Constantin Silvestri (section)

==Recording==
In Romania and Eastern Europe, before moving to the West, Silvestri made around 20 LPs, often of repertoire he did not subsequently re-record.<ref name="CRC"/>

Recordings for which he is particularly well known include [[Edward Elgar]]'s Overture ''[[In the South (Alassio)]]'', and  [[Symphony No. 5 (Tchaikovsky)|Tchaikovsky's 5th symphony]]. His recordings received a First Prize from the [[Académie Charles Cros]] (for [[Antonín Dvořák]]'s ''[[Symphony No. 9 (Dvořák)|Symphony No.9, "From the New World"]]'') and the [[Grand Prix du Disque]] (for [[George Enescu]]'s ''Dixtuor for Winds'').

Silvestri conducted and recorded with many of the world's leading orchestras, such as the [[Berlin Philharmonic]], [[Philharmonia]], [[Concertgebouw Orchestra|Concertgebouw]], [[Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire|Paris Conservatoire Orchestra]], [[L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande|Suisse Romande]], [[Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra]],.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/the-compact-collection-640669.html | title=The compact collection (Constantin Silvestri: The collection) | work=The Independent | author=Rob Cowan | date=23 August 2002 | access-date=2009-09-13}}{{dead link|date=August 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

In addition to commercial recordings, the BBC Legends label has issued six CDs of radio performances from the 1960s with Silvestri conducting the Bournemouth orchestra.<ref name="CRC"/> In 2013, EMI re-issued most of his recordings with that company in a 15-disc set in which one reviewer noted the performances' "consistent character and quality";<ref>Sanders A. Review of EMI Classics 'Constantin Silvestri – Complete EMI Recordings (7 23347-2). ''[[Classical Recordings Quarterly]]'', Summer 2013, 73 : p71-73.</ref> alongside Tchaikovsky's symphonies 4-6 and Manfred, there was much other Russian music, Dvořák symphonies 7-9, and works by Bartok, Hindemith, Berlioz, Franck, Ravel and Debussy.

Video and audio rarities with excerpts from Silvestri's concerts, rehearsals, live and studio recordings are featured in Anda Anastasescu Gritten's film series 'CONSTANTIN SILVESTRI: Avant-gardist, Master improviser, Homme passionné' (7 episodes: Prelude, Lead soldiers, The little shepherd, Fireworks, Pictures at an exhibition, Nocturne, Bacchanalia).<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPLgIBlRgbpwf6CM6n2C4gw/videos Released 2021 in Bucharest by the George Enescu International Festival and the Romanian National TV (TVR3)]</ref> In the films, Silvestri conducts the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the ORTF Orchestra, the Bucharest Philharmonic, the Romanian National Radio Symphony Orchestra and the orchestra of the Romanian National Opera. 

On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Silvestri’s death and after 19 years of campaigning to revive his memory, pianist Anda Anastasescu and journalist John Gritten produced a 2-CD set for the RMA label (Romanian Musical Adventure) with Silvestri conducting the Bournemouth orchestra. The album has an unusual history: many of the concerts conducted by Silvestri in Britain were broadcast by the BBC. Lack of archive space led to the destruction of the master tapes of the majority of these broadcasts but Silvestri had recorded many concerts and 350 reel-to-reel tapes were given to the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra archive by his widow. A chance re-discovery of the tapes by the orchestra’s librarian led to the involvement of Raymond Carpenter, the orchestra’s principal clarinettist during his leadership and the BSO’s and Silvestri’s archivist. The set contains works broadcast by the BBC in the 1960s from Bournemouth and Bristol: Silvestri's own 'Three Pieces for Strings', Enescu's Symphony No. 1, First and Second Orchestral Suites, Mozart's Magic Flute Overture, Prokofiev's Symphony No. 1 and Dvorak's Slavonic Dances.